Class Year
2018
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
12-2-2015
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
For the past several weeks, students all across the nation have opened up discussions on race relations on university campuses and in American culture at large. The latest battlefield in the fight for greater inclusion is Princeton University, where protestors from the Black Justice League staged a 32 hour sit-in at the president’s office. Princeton University, traditionally viewed as a bastion of progressivism and liberal ideology, is coming under fire for its reverence for perhaps their most famous graduate, President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson graduated from Princeton University Class of 1879 and served as president of the school from 1902 until 1910, after which he was elected Governor of New Jersey and subsequently the 28th President of the United States [excerpt].
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Recommended Citation
Lauck, Jeffrey L., "Lost Cause in the Oval Office: Woodrow Wilson’s Racist Policies and White-Washed Memory of the Civil War" (2015). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 136.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/136
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